Australia must join diplomatic boycott of Olympics

If there is one nation on earth that should boycott the Winter Olympics in Beijing it is Australia:

The Morrison government is under pressure to follow the United States in staging a diplomatic boycott of the Winter Olympics to be held in Beijing in February.

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said sending diplomats would treat the games as business as usual, but that in the face of the “egregious” human rights abuses “we simply can’t do that”.

Meh. Australians long ago took the bribe to stop worrying about human rights. Remember those quaint days when the Dali Lhama used to visit?

For Australia, it is about this:

Trade bullying.
Domestic political interference.
Espionage.
Daily insults.
Hostage diplomacy.
War talkin’ and build-up.
14 conditions to end democracy.

So on and so forth.

Let’s support the US and NZ boycott and go even further with no athletes!

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.